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Pfeilstorch
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- api 1y agoSomething funny about the first Pfeilstorch being found near Klutz. Sounds Monty Python-ish.
- fnordian_slip 1y agoI thought of the discworld. https://wiki.lspace.org/Klotz https://wiki.lspace.org/Klotz
- rikafurude21 1y ago"The africans learned to aim for the body and the Pfeilstorch went extinct"
- homebrewer 1y agoEveryone immediately thought about the famous story of returning damaged airplanes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#Military https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#Military
- pimlottc 1y agoAnd to think, we were reinforcing the wrong part of the stork for so long…
- amelius 1y agoWondering what the bird must have been thinking.
- jstummbillig 1y agoI am injured, this is not great?
- Retr0id 1y agooof ouch my neck
- uhhhd 1y agoDoes this hurt the bird?
- hermitcrab 1y agoI expect it feels the same way about having an arrow through its throat as you would.
- dvh 1y agoThe interesting part is that before that people thought birds are changing form in winter or hibernate.
- procgen 1y agoReminds me of the theory that insects like flies spontaneously emerge from decaying matter and dung. I wonder what magical thoughts we're taking for granted today.
- _whiteCaps_ 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
- portaouflop 1y ago“We are building thinking machines”
- xdennis 1y agoThe draft/promaja. In Eastern Europe people genuinely think that if you leave two windows open you'll get various diseases like cold/flu/headache/ear pain/etc. I've tried to understand this belief. So if you stand outside and it's windy, that's perfectly fine. But if you're inside, and you open two windows, that's deadly, even if there's no draft to be felt. I think some people think it's even more deadly if you can't feel it. https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1csstle/draft_myth/ https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1csstle/draft_myth...
- otras 1y agoSounds like the same energy as fan death in South Korea: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death
- akk0 1y agoI don't know about colds and stuff, but I have a knee that's very sensitive and starts hurting from drafts (fans and AC blowing also triggers it, and cold and humidity makes it worse also, so it fluctuates quite a bit through the year). Being outside on a windy day doesn't have this effect.
- k__ 1y ago"some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds, mice, or hibernated underwater" What did people in Africa think? I mean, they also saw birds disappearing.
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- a3w 1y agoThat "birds hibernated on the moon" is even stranger, unless you are into 18xx sci-fi.
- quitit 1y agoWhen I read things like this, it gives me the following thought pattern: 1. I wonder what weird stuff people believe today that is absolutely bonkers.. then a few moments later... 2. Oh hang on, some people still think the earth is flat, nevermind.
- slightwinder 1y agoThere is nothing strange about this, people simply had a different understanding of the world. Your understanding of it would be the SciFi, because at the time people were not aware of space having a vacuum, or that the moon is already outside earths atmosphere.
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- herewulf 1y agoThey might have wondered about finding birds filled with bird shot (little rocks) or carrying a bullet (small pebble) but that's not obviously connected to human hunting activity for a society oblivious to firearms (unlike arrows and spears).
- hermitcrab 1y agoIIRC there is an example in the Pitt-Rivers museum in Oxford, UK. The museum is packed full of amazing artefacts borrowed (ahem) from around the world and is well worth a visit: https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/ https://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
- ForceBru 1y agoCrazy stuff: "white storks that are injured by an arrow or spear while wintering in Africa and return to Europe with the projectile stuck in their bodies", they apparently helped people in 1822 learn that birds migrate?! Was it not widely known before that? Cool!
- mapmeld 1y agoSome people thought that the birds flew to the moon in the winter!
- tremon 1y agoWell, how did they know that the spear didn't belong to the men in the moon then?
- eenridoku 1y agothat’s crazy, I read it in a book but can’t recall which one. In the same book they were going through the eels mistery about where they go to breed, hopefully we gonna find an eel with a spear in the neck one day
- cubefox 1y agoIt was likely widely believed before 1822 that birds migrate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44926306
- grimgrin 1y agoA little further down it said this: > Besides migration, some theories of the time held that they turned into other kinds of birds, mice, or hibernated underwater during the winter, and such theories were even propagated by zoologists of the time.
- oliwary 1y agoThis is hilarious in hindsight... I wonder what kind of beliefs we hold that will seem equally funny to the people in 200 years. ;)
- EvanAnderson 1y agoI saw a Canada goose with an arrow through its neck frequenting the retention pond near a community college where I worked. The arrow was almost parallel to the ground in orientation. I called a local wildlife rescue but never heard if they trapped the bird. Hopefully they did and were able to remove the arrow. I was surprised how well the bird was getting around.
- baxter001 1y ago> I was surprised how well the bird was getting around. SurvivorBias.png except it's a silhouette of a goose with numerous red arrows drawn over it.
- fluorinerocket 1y agoThat's a lot of extra drag for the poor stork, besides the pain of having an arrow in its neck
- aidenn0 1y agoSo King Arthur knowing that swallows fly south for the winter in Monty Python And The Holy Grail was anachronistic?
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- verisimi 1y ago> The first and most famous Pfeilstorch was a white stork found in 1822 near the German village of Klütz, in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. It was carrying a 75-centimetre (30 in) spear from central Africa in its neck.[2][3] The specimen was subsequently stuffed and can be seen today in the zoological collection of the University of Rostock. So, where Africans tried and failed, Germans succeeded.
- fegu 1y agoThe arrow must have been a drag. "I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow to the neck."